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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2016-5291: Vulnerability in Firefox, Thunderbird

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N)
Published
May 29, 2017
Added
May 29, 2017
Modified
Feb 1, 2022

Description

A same-origin policy bypass with local shortcut files to load arbitrary local content from disk. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 45.5, Firefox ESR < 45.5, and Firefox < 50.

Solutions

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